Faris Sharaf

Advocate for human rights, freedom of speech, economic opportunity, and the environment.

[Faris Sharaf @FarisSharaf]

A must see.

[Faris Sharaf @FarisSharaf]

Jordan Capital and Investment Fund acquires 23.3% Stake in Al Jazeera Agriculture, raising Fund’s Total Investments to JOD 100 Million across Six Jordanian Companies https://t.co/zbYjt4yAwS

[Dr. Annelle Rodriguez Sheline @AnnelleSheline]

"What’s been lost in the coverage of Trump’s remarks is the deeper shift it signals... it’s a declaration that Palestinian displacement is the goal, not the consequence, of US policy.

Policymakers still insist that a two-state solution remains the official US position — even as every action taken by successive administrations undermines that very possibility. Decades of unconditional military aid, diplomatic cover for settlement expansion, and willful disregard for Palestinian sovereignty have made clear that "two states" was never an actual policy — only a talking point meant to delay accountability."
@rawanabhari for @RStatecraft
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[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Month after month, the world has watched as Israel treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them.

[Faris Sharaf @FarisSharaf]

https://t.co/mMyHSRFus5 via @NYTimes

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

“Controversial” is what you’d use to describe someone’s opinion on wearing shoes indoors.

Not systematic ethnic cleansing which is what this Israeli plan is.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

At least 100 children have been killed in Lebanon in 11 days, and over 690 children have been injured in the last six weeks, per reports.

UNICEF and partners are providing emergency medical supplies and essential services. Join us to support. https://t.co/hOcZXfjN46

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

This is what indiscriminate bombardment looks like. https://t.co/UpqkHWcLeN

[Faris Sharaf @FarisSharaf]

عبد الحميد شرف ( 1939 - 1980)، قراءة في الفكر والممارسة | مدار الساعة ـ بقلم:د. فيصل الغويين #مدار_الساعة #الاردن #الأردن https://t.co/KfP7MilE5C

[Faris Sharaf @FarisSharaf]

صندوق رأس المال والاستثمار الأردني يعلن استثماره في مزارع سنقرط للدواجن https://t.co/nau6iulrae

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Here is a list of the names we know from the more than 11,500 Palestinian children killed during Israel’s continuing war on Gaza ⤵️

Know their names: https://t.co/l9T4EJlRKT

[Faris Sharaf @FarisSharaf]

صحيفة عمون : صندوق رأس المال والاستثمار الأردني يعلن عن استثماره في شركة الشيخ الدولية للصناعات الغذائية https://t.co/LhwK62CdMO

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

What does this teach you about life?

[JordanStrategyForum @JSFJordan]

منتدى الاستراتيجيات الأردني بالأرقام للعام 2023
#JSFJo

[خبرني - khaberni @khaberni]

ليلة راس السنة في غزة
#خبرني

[Zara Magnusson @zaramagnusson]

A 🧵 of all the protests in support of Palestine WORLDWIDE! ✊🏻🇵🇸

Please share your own pictures and videos in the comments so I can add them too! 🙏🏻

1. Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

[Faris Sharaf @FarisSharaf]

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